US Navy Adds Destroyer to Naval Forces in Japan

USS Ralph Johnson Joins Forward-Deployed Naval Forces Japan

(Source: US Navy; issued Oct 04, 2021)

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) arrived Oct. 4 to their new forward-deployed location in Yokos…

Future Vertical Lift (FVL) is a force structure recapitalization effort to design and procure a family of rotary-wing platforms capable of operations in future highly contested envi­ronments. The Army’s FVL is the leading edge of an effort that has identified the need for a rotary-wing Family of Sys…

OKINAWA, Japan — U.S. Marines and Sailors from across III Marine Expeditionary Force and elements of U.S. 7th Fleet executed Noble Jaguar, an integrated naval exercise in and around Japan, Sept. 27-31, 2021.

While closely monitoring simulated adversary activities, these forces received the orde…

BATH, Maine — The christening of the future USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120) took place on 2 October 2021 at the General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine. DDG 120 is the fifth (of nine) Arleigh Burke-class, “Flight IIA: Technology Insertion” variant for the U.S. Navy.

The ship’s name…

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. –– The Navy’s Aerial Target program office (PMA-208) recently completed three back-to-back test flights with its newest subsonic aerial target, BQM-177A, in preparation for Full Operational Capability (FOC) this year.

The Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) Detachment-Far E…

VILLANOVA D’ALBENGA, Italy — The Italian Minister of Defence, Lorenzo Guerini, signed on Friday, October 1 a Decree for the purchase of six new P.180 Avanti EVO for the Italian Armed Forces.

For a total amount of 171 million euros, the act also finances the supply of a P.180 full flight simula…